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Add Outlook as an App in Teams?
Hi folks,
I am quite new here but have not found yet what I seek. I want my team to use Teams as their main hub for communication and one of the things I would like is to add an app in the left bar (in either the web or the desktop version) with which they can reach their outlook inbox (web version?). I have looked into App Studio but have no idea how to start or if it is even the right place to start. It seems a pretty easy thing (just an url?), yet I have no idea how to go about solving this.
Thnx already!
- Hi NerdyBen
See here
https://tomtalks.blog/2019/11/adding-outlook-email-and-calendar-app-to-microsoft-teams-a-proof-of-concept/
This was a POC done recently. Note this isn’t officially supported but you can follow and reproduce the steps.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
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- Any chance Microsoft would consider adding Outlook App to Teams? It's a good idea to add Outlook as part of the MS Teams, as improvement is a process, not a quantum leap! All M365 users are currently using 2 apps (Teams + Outlook) for their daily operations.
- Remains under review at Feedback.
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/43fcdafc-262e-ec11-b6e6-00224827bbc2
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
- Open Teams App from Outlook Meeting Invite
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Regards,
Peter - I'm writing on Feb. 23, 2021, more than a year later and we still do NOT have a way to send an email to all MS Teams' team members. people are hard to change. Email is "official" when at Universities, Teams is NOT. I'd appreciate an integration to be rolled out: I want to email all my Teams' members. Please, MicroSoft, Make it happen! Thank you!
- Well, actually you can email all your team's members. Depending on settings at tenant level (if I am right), every team has a shared mailbox available, like 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿-𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺-𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲@𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿-𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘁-𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲.𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁.𝗰𝗼𝗺
Hope this helps you.
- Unfortunately, this wasn’t a feature announced at Ignite. The integration they announced was pulling an email into a Teams channel or pushing a Teams conversation into an email.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/What-s-New-in-Microsoft-Teams-Microsoft-Ignite-2019/ba-p/937025
It wasn’t the integration of the outlook or outlook on the web experience into Teams, making it an app, pinning it to the app bar etc. The only full app experience which was announced was Yammer.
It remains to be seen if the full Outlook experience will follow the POC. Lots of people want to see that but Microsoft haven’t committed to that.
As you can see here that is still under review
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/16925707-access-to-email-from-left-tab-panel
Best, ChrisChrisHoardMVP I stand corrected. I thought I had seen the Outlook icon on the left-hand rail in one of the sessions.
- Hi NerdyBen
See here
https://tomtalks.blog/2019/11/adding-outlook-email-and-calendar-app-to-microsoft-teams-a-proof-of-concept/
This was a POC done recently. Note this isn’t officially supported but you can follow and reproduce the steps.
Hope that answers your question
Best, ChrisHiChrisHoardMVP ,
Thanks a lot! This is exactly what I need. I get stuck on step five though. I am a (the) teams admin yet I do not seem to have enough permissions to install the app. Reading the comments under the article I seem to be not the only one. But I'm confident I will find a way. Thanks a lot!
- No worries.
It could be in the Teams Admin Centre that it’s not set up for custom apps. If you work through this it may help
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-custom-app-policies-and-settings
Best, Chris
